About

Welcome to Rob Alexander’s Canmore History. This blog is dedicated to sharing the history of Canmore, Alberta, a former railway and coal-mining town turned international destination. Canmore, a town of 12,000, straddles the Bow River in the heart of the Canadian Rockies an hour west of Calgary.

I am a writer, photographer and historian based in Canmore and author of The History of Canmore, published by Summerthought Publishing of Banff, AB.